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how do you know he is the theif, and where do you draw the line on who can have privacy and not ?

That was my thought as well -- it could well be that the actual thief who stole the phone sold it to some innocent third party for a great discount.

So find and hold the real thief accountable for the theft and the invasion of the innocent person's privacy. It was after all, the thief's fault.

That doesn't make sense as the thief would be unaware of the spyware - no mens rea